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Well done to Dave Ansell and Dominic Ford, and all the Web Ops team for keeping our website safe. Coudl have been a nightmare! Quick thinking and quick action. Thank you.
I have to agree with the chat here. Enjoying astronomy is more than astrophotography, and certainly more than sitting in front of a computer processing or reading blogs etc. I agree also however that the BAA does need to raise its profile amongst some of these groups but that is hard when it involves yet more hours in front of a screen, which people keen to go out and look up are less likely to have the time to do. Social media has become a beast requiring constant feeding. The BAA’s strength is its breadth of interests and ability to accommodate all tastes, and to help people improve and increase their knowledge.
I have also been surprised at how some clubs push BAA membership as almost a rite of passage and others have hardly heard of us.
Grant – I think you hit the nail on the head with the dominance of dreaded algorithms that seek to control what we read and hear. But I think that increasingly users are becoming more aware of that influence and starting to push against it. Times are always changing.Thank you to Jeremy for producing this excelent letter to the Press and locla MPs. The howls of protest must surely raise doubt in the wisdom of the proposals. Short sighted decision if ever there was one!
I also loved the book, and my thanks to Dr Nick Hewitt for introducing it to me when I first became interested in astronomy.
Thank you all for your excellent contributions. I have forwarded them to the original poster, and will contact you with any further questions. Kind regards,
Janice
Great Pics Pauline and well done for taking the time to dig these out. It would be fun if we could have a place on the website for each Winchester group photo thru the years, but I do not have the access to go about it. I wonder could we create it as an entity on the Forum and allow people to post to it? Anyone know?
Finola Finlay, who very kindly helped me in my researches on Agnes Clerke’s life, has published a rather lovely tribute to her and her family in her blog from West Cork.
Finola, an archaeologist, is also an authority on the neolithic monuments of Ireland for those with an interest in astro-archaeology.
I have to say though that the microclimate in West Cork is rather balmy!
Well done to Ann Davies and her team for a great Winchester. She had to cope with many challenges in getting the show on the road but it was a weekend to remember. Great speakers all and a wonderful injection of humour by Eric and Ernie!
I presume chocolate telescopes are generally made of dark chocolate unless you want to observe the milky way..
After a week of no electricity in the area of the Observatory which shut us down, we are back rockin’ and rollin’
. Looks like the same capture.Hi James, I attended an event at Rochester Cathedral last night along with 7 other miscreants from Crayford MHASD. Mid Kent AS put on an excellent talk in the crypt of the Cathedral on the Apollo 11 Moon landing by one of their esteemed members, Prof David Rees, with an anthology of rarely seen video extracts of various Apollo missions, not just Apollo 11, and of the people that he had worked with at NASA at that time. Very interesting. I attach a photo of the Moon with a bunch of extremely enthused boy scouts underneath, sketching away to their hearts content! Great fun.
Hi James,
No, no extra cost. We have been offered a great facility at the IoP, and one which offers us the opportunity to live stream for some meetings – as we did for the Christmas meeting last year, which members who could not make it to the meeting physically, very much appreciated. The lecture theatre is also much larger than that at Burlington.
Dear Michael, William and Alex, Thank you for a truly great weekend. Great location, excellent hospitality, and lots of enthusiasm from top speakers and fellow attendees. I hope this can be an annual event. Took the opportunity to visit Birr Castle on Sunday and to be reminded of the long history of collaboration between Ireland and the UK in the world of astronomy. Long may it continue, with great events such as yours. Hopefully we will see you all at Armagh for the next BAA Autumn meeting in September 2019.
